An elderly friend has a portege 3110 CT running w98. He trashed the video drivers somehow & I had to reinstall W98 to fix it. (Of course, now that MS no longer supports W98, it won't be a viable option for him going forward.

So I thought "Wow, this a perfect opportunity to install the w98 version of Puppy." I could get him adjusted to the change to Puppy while he still has w98 to fall back on.

PupWin98 has Puppy version 1.0.7 and it'll be at least a few weeks before I can get to updating it. Does that computer have CD-ROM? Perhaps you could see if the latest version of Puppy does the trick. If so, I'll have added motivation to update PupWin98._________________Felicitations & Facilitations, Rev. John G. Derrickson
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this requires jady's pupwin98 (with puppy 1.07 files included in said .zip file) and a newer version of puppy, but is not known to work with 2.12, 2.13, 2.14. the main difference in these three versions is a file named zdrv.something, they may (or may not) work too if zdrv is placed in whatever the right place is. if you succeed, please reply _________________sadly, it is not possible to separate politics from free software. free software - politics = unfree software.

PupWin98 has Puppy version 1.0.7 and it'll be at least a few weeks before I can get to updating it. Does that computer have CD-ROM? Perhaps you could see if the latest version of Puppy does the trick. If so, I'll have added motivation to update PupWin98.

No-go on that cd-rom idea, JaDy. The computer does have a cd-rom, but it is a Panasonic KXL-807A... It can't boot the machine.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion though... I guess I'll just have to wait and see if your updated version works when you finish it.

this requires jady's pupwin98 (with puppy 1.07 files included in said .zip file) and a newer version of puppy, but is not known to work with 2.12, 2.13, 2.14. the main difference in these three versions is a file named zdrv.something, they may (or may not) work too if zdrv is placed in whatever the right place is. if you succeed, please reply

BlackAdder wrote:

By coincidence, this thread is also active today. Might help you get set up.

Thanks for the leads, Amish and BlackAdder. Unfortunately, neither of these address how to get the 1.07 version in PupWin98 to get past the X freeze. At least not explicitly enough for my level of expertise (low)

The Blog post form Amish tells how to convert the 1.07 install to a 2.11 install, and the thread from BlackAdder refers to how to alter scripts in 2.13 to address a different X issue in a different toshiba laptop with different video card having a similar problem. I'm afraid that if the information is transferrable to my issue, it's beyond my abilities to figure out how to make it apply.

Thanks much to all who replied with suggestions. I will keep researching and hopefully still find a solution.

Save and reboot.
Not shure, if this is sufficient, but try this first.

If that does not work immedeatly, open a consolewindow, and type:
modprobe usbhid
Maybe you must restart X then.
If that works, we could add it to the startscript.

I go asleep soon, so might reply only tomorrow, but certainly Bob and others will help, too Smile

Mark

After I changed "/dev/input/mice" to "/dev/mouse" , when I tried to start X it ALMOST started - that is, it got a little further; I actually saw the X cursor and for about a half a second, I saw the puppy seagull wallpaper, then it failed again just as I was in mid-exultant cheer. Damn! So close!

So I then tried the modprobe usbhid, but I got the message "modprobe: can't locate module usbhid"

I think that part may not apply to this machine as it has the little "eraser-tip" type mouse located in the center of the keyboard.

After changing the "/dev/input/mice" line to "/dev/mouse", I noticed that the resolution was set to "1024X768" in the video section. Since this is a little portege with only a 10.5' screen, it can only handle 800x600. Once I changed that, it booted right up!

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